Steve Freeman » Cool gadgets

Can I afford this business card?

steve.freeman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:43:41 +0000

I run my own company, perhaps I should make a business card like this: .

from Alexander Kjerulf via Diana of Portland

The Lego of Gadgets

steve.freeman — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:47:38 +0000

This stuff from Buglabs looks really cool.

One Build Monitor per child

steve.freeman — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:29:36 +0000

The One Laptop Per Child project will be offering a Give 1 Get 1 program for a little while. We all know we want one to play with but haven’t found a good excuse yet. So propose to your management to use them as build monitors, they might even be tax-deductible.

I’m just hoping we can find a way to get hold of them in the UK too.

Another great way to lose track of time on the Web.

steve.freeman — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:50:10 +0000

I just bumped into this service from Blogger. It shows the pictures that are being uploaded in realtime. I don’t know why but it’s addictive.

A new generation of Lego Mindstorms

steve.freeman — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 08:49:32 +0000

Described here.

Via lemonodor

Comment your code

steve.freeman — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 22:00:37 +0000

Commentator

How to avoid RSI

steve.freeman — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 20:47:32 +0000

or just vent your frustrations

via. Grady Booch

Internet telephony

steve.freeman — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:14:16 +0000

My wife is currently in Japan where her GSM phone doesn’t work. We’ve just had a chat using Skype. I don’t know if it’s the best internet voice service, but it certainly works fine for us. I know I’m a late adopter on many things (I remember colleagues using Next machines to talk to California, oh, 12 years ago), but this one is a very nice repackaging of the technology. Anyway, how good does it have to be for free?

Thin clients come of age?

steve.freeman — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:34:03 +0000

First Mike Roberts raves about gmail and now this, an XHTML-based presentation kit using CSS and JavaScript (via Kyle Rankin).

Maybe I don’t need desktop applications after all….

pycore: Python on VisualWorks

steve.freeman — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:52:10 +0000

As reported by recondite, Peter Deutsch is porting Python to run on VisualWorks Smalltalk

This should be good.

Napkin Look and Feel

steve.freeman — Wed, 26 May 2004 11:38:24 +0000

From the Napkin Look and Feel site:

The Napkin Look & Feel is a pluggable Java look and feel that looks like it was scrawled on a napkin. You can use it to make provisional work actually look provisonal, or just for fun.

The idea is to try to develop a look and feel that can be used in Java applications that looks informal and provisional, yet be fully functional for development. Often when people see a GUI mock-up, or a complete GUI without full functionality, they assume that the code behind it is working. While this can be used to sleazy advantage, it can also convince people who ought to know better (like your managers) that you are already done when you have just barely begun, or when only parts are complete.

Brilliant idea.

Vehicle to autonomous biped robot conversion for the Mini Cooper r50.

steve.freeman — Sat, 01 May 2004 19:57:24 +0000

An engineer near Oxford has built a Transformer (as in the childrens’ cartoons from the 80′s) from a BMW mini. This demo is amazing. Read more.

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